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Names

Piggott, William Roy, 1914-2008 (Physicist and student of Sir Edward Appleton ) 34

Beynon, William John Granville, Sir, 1914-1996 (Welsh Physicist) 31

van der Pol, Balthasar, 1889-1959 (Dutch physicist) 28

Naismith, Robert J, 1901-1973 (Scottish born radio scientist) 20

Hey, James Stanley, 1909-2000 (English physicist and radio astronomer) 12

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Smith-Rose, Reginald Leslie, 1894-1980 (English physicist at the National Physical Laboratory) 10

British Broadcasting Corporation (1922-:) (radio and television broadcasters) 9

Ratcliffe, John Ashworth, 1902-1987 (British radio physicist) 8

Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973 (Scottish physicist) 7

Emeléus, Karl George, 1901-1989 (British experimental physicist) 6

Farvis, William Ewart John , 1911-2005 (English born pioneering electronics engineer and educator, professor of electrical engineering, University of Edinburgh) 6

Hartree, Douglas Rayner, 1897-1954 (English mathematician and physicist) 6

Lovell, Sir Alfred Charles Bernard, 1913-2012 (English radio astronomer, pioneer of radar and radio telescopes) 5

Martyn, David Forbes, 1906-1970 (Scottish born Australian physicist and radiographer) 5

Bowen, Edward George, 1911-1991 (Welsh physicist) 4

Burgess, Ronald E., fl.1935-1977 (English physicist) 4

University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 4

Wilkins, Arnold Fredrick, 1907-1985 (British physicist and RADAR pioneer) 4

Altar, Wilhelm, 1900-1995 (Austrian-born Theoretical Physicist) 3

Bartels, Julius, 1899-1964 (German geophysicist and statistician) 3

Cartwright, Mary Lucy, Dame, 1900-1998 (English mathematician) 3

Eckersley, Thomas Lydwell, 1886-1959 (English physicist and engineer) 3

Hoyle, Fred, Sir, 1915-2001 (English astronomer) 3

Littlewood, John Edensor, 1885-1977 (English mathematician) 3

Lorentz, Hendrik Antoon, 1853-1928 (Dutch Physicist) 3

Sang, James Henderson, 1912-2002 (biologist and geneticist) 3

Alexander, W.G., fl 1951 (senior official, Agricultural Research Council) 2

Baillie, Florence Jewel, 1893-1969 (married to John Baillie) 2

Baillie, John, 1886-1960 (Scottish theologian and ecumenical leader) 2

Booker, Henry G., 1910-1988 (Anglo-American physicist) 2

Born, Max, 1882-1970 (physicist) 2

Breit, Gregory, 1899-1981 (Russian-born Jewish American physicist) 2

Dobson, George Miller Bourne, 1889-1976 (British physicist and meteorologist) 2

Dusen, Henry Pitney Van, 1897-1975 (ecumenical leader) 2

Larmor, Joseph, 1857-1942 (Irish born physicist and mathematician) 2

Lejay, Pierre, Father, 1898-1958 (French Jesuit Priest and physicist) 2

Millington, George, fl. c. 1912-1978 (English scientist for Marconi) 2

Rutherford, Ernest, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, 1871-1937 (New Zealand Physicist) 2

Sayers, James, 1912-1993 (Northern Irish physicist) 2

Searle, George Fredrick Charles, 1864-1954 (English physicist) 2

Slater, William Kershaw, Sir, 1893-1970 (chemist and Secretary of the Agricultural Research Council) 2

Stratton, Frederick John Marrian, Lieutenant-Colonel, 1881-1960 (British Astrophysicist) 2

Tonks, Lewi, 1897-1971 (American quantum physicist) 2

Waddington, Conrad Hal, 1905-1975 (embryologist and professor of animal genetics, University of Edinburgh) 2

White, Frederick William George , 1905-1994 (New Zealand born physicist) 2

Wilkes , Sir Maurice Vincent, 1913-2010 (British computer scientist) 2

Wilson, Charles Thomas Rees, 1869-1959 (Scottish Physicist and Meteorologist) 2

Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa , 1887-1971 (English physicist, writer and poet) 1

Auerbach, Charlotte, 1899-1994 (professor of genetics at the University of Edinburgh) 1

Bailey, Dana Kavanagh, 1916-1999 (American radiophysicist, botanist and explorer) 1

Baillie, Donald Macpherson, 1887-1954 (Scottish theologian) 1

Barnett, Miles Aylmer Fulton, 1901-1979 (New Zealand physicist | Director of the Meteorological Office, Wellington) 1

Blok, Arthur, 1882-1974 (British born Israeli electric engineer) 1

Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962 (Danish physicist) 1

Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971 (physicist) 1

Briggs, Basil Hugh, 1923-1994 (Australian physicist) 1

British Empire Cancer Campaign Environment Unit. Poultry Research Centre (c.1947-1970) 1

Brooks, Charles Ernest Pelham, 1888-1957 (English climatologist) 1

Bruce, Charles Edward Rhodes, 1902-1979, Astronomer and Physicist 1

Brunt, David, 1886-1965 (Welsh meteorologist) 1

Butement, William Alan Stewart, 1904-1990 (New Zealand born British-Australian defence scientist) 1

Chapman, Sydney, 1888-1970 (British mathematician) 1

Comrie, Leslie John, 1893-1950 (New Zealand born British astronomer) 1

Copisarow, Alcon Charles, Sir, 1920-2017 (British scientific civil servant) 1

Cowling, Thomas George, 1906-1990 (English astronomer) 1

Darrow, Karl Kelchner, 1891-1982 (American physicist) 1

Dellinger, John Howard, 1886-1962 (American telecommunications engineer) 1

Dieminger, Walter, 1907-2000 (German space scientist) 1

Dingle, Herbert, 1890-1978 (English physicist) 1

Directors' Club (1940-?) 1

Dunbar, John Greig, Sir, 1907-: (Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1960-1963)) 1

Eastwood, Eric, Sir, 1910-1981 (British scientist and engineer) 1

Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 1882-1944 (English astronomer, physicist and mathematician) 1

Elliott, William Sydney, 1917-2000 (or 2003) (British computer engineer) 1

Ellison, Mervyn Archdale, 1909-1963 (Irish astronomer) 1

Fleming, John Adam, 1877-1956 (American geophysicist) 1

Forrest, John Samuel, 1907-1992 (Scottish physicist) 1

Forrester, Isobel Margaret Stewart, fl1904-1961 (nee McColl) 1

Freeth, Denzil, 1924-2010 (British Conservative politician) 1

George VI, 1895-1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 1

Gordon, Cecil, 1907-1960 (physicist, zoologist, physiologist) 1

Greig, John McDougal Russell, 1899-1963 (veterinarian, director of the Moredun Institute) 1

Groenwold, Hilbrand Johannes, 1910-1996 (Dutch physicist) 1

Harang, Leiv, 1902-1970 (Norwegian physicist) 1

Heaviside, Oliver, 1850-1925 (English mathematician and physicist) 1

Hewitt, Francis John, 1919-2007 1

Hirst, Sir Edmund Langley, 1898-1975 (chemist) 1

Hodge, William Vallance Douglas, Sir, 1903-1975 (British mathematician) 1

Hoffmeister, Cuno, 1892-1967 (German astronomer) 1

Hoyt Taylor, Albert, 1879-1961 (American electrical engineer) 1

Hulbert, Edward Olson, 1890-1982 (American geophysicist) 1

Hutchison, Michael Clark Hutchison, 1914-1993 (Scottish Unionist politican) 1

Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley, 1904-1970 (British technologist and electrical engineer ) 1

Jansky, Karl Guthe, 1905-1950 (American physicist) 1

Johnson-Marshall, Percy, 1915-1993 (professor of urban design and regional planning, University of Edinburgh) 1

Kemmer, Nicholas, 1911-1998 (Russian born nuclear physicist) 1

Kreielsheimer, Kurt Samuel, 1903-1980 (German physicist and engineer ) 1

Lack, David Lambert, 1910-1973 (British evolutionary biologist ) 1

Lindemann, Fredrick Alexander, 1st Viscount Cherwell, 1886-1957 (British physicist) 1

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